A funny thing happened to Tadej Pogačar on his first step on the road to a crushing victory in the Giro d’Italia: he lost. The overwhelming favourite to win the first Grand Tour of the year was upset in stage 1 by a cyclist most,…
With the dominance of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in this year’s spring Classics and the clear superiority of the UAE Team Emirates leader Tadej Pogačar in the upcoming Giro d’Italia, grumblings are being heard in the sport about the lack of suspense in road…
It has been a mediocre start to the 2024 season for the once mighty INEOS Grenadiers, who under the name Team Sky were the unchallenged lords of road racing from 2012 to 2019. In that eight-year span, they won the Tour de France seven times…
The resignation last week of INEOS Grenadiers racing director Rod Ellingworth has confirmed what was glaringly obvious – that the team that ruled world road racing and the Tour de France yellow jersey for almost a decade is in a state of flux. And this…
